ABC News Houston Covers the Leaky B@@B’s fight against Facebook over the removal, reinstatement, and removal (again) of their breastfeeding support page. Please note that Bettina Forbes did not say that there is “no breastfeeding network”. Of course there is LLLI, ILCA, Kellymom.com etc.! What I really said was that moms turn to The Leaky Boob because “there is no solid breastfeeding infrastructure” in U.S., i.e. only 3% baby-friendly hospitals; and doctors, nurses, health care that are not required to be educated in basics of lactation management.

December 2010

The Journal of Breastfeeding Medicine: A Website Review of Bestforbabes.org by Anne Eglash, MD, FABM. Breastfeeding Medicine. December 2010, 5(6): 321-321. doi:10.1089/bfm.2010.9983. We love this very favorable review that starts out with “thank goodness for Best for Babes.”!

October 2010

The LA Times features a full page of our “Top Five Breastfeeding Tips from the Best for Babes Foundation.” The Issue featured Tiffani Thiessen on the cover. Pregnancy and Wellness Report by MediaPlanet

September 2010

Cafemom.com’sThe Stir names Best for Babes #4 (!) on their list of The 50 Best Breastfeeding Resources on the Web, a huge honor as we are a relative newcomer compared to Kellymom.com, La Leche League and Breastfeeding.com who are in spots 1-3!

April 2010

Best for Babes Co-Founder Bettina Forbes is quoted in a great story on the rising use of donor milk banks, and the Human Milk Bank Association of North America. Actress Alysia Reiner, a Best for Babes Champion for Moms, talks about donating her milk so a friend who struggled with breastfeeding could give her baby human milk. To read more about Alysia’s moving story, click here.

February 2010

“Fit Pregnancy – Feb/March 2010 gives a full-page shout-out (in the Bump*a*licious section) to moms about the power & glamour of nursing in public. Best for Babes again weighs in as the new voice of breastfeeding by stating that the true scandal is not nursing in public (NIP) but that moms are being prevented from ‘making an informed decision about nursing and to carry[ing] it out.”

November 2009

SHAPE Magazine features Best for Babes co-founder Danielle Rigg as one of “Ten Women Who Shape the World” in the November 2009 Issue. The power list of ten women is headed off by First Lady Michelle Obama, and the inclusion of breastfeeding as an important health and women’s rights issue is testimony to how Best for Babes is reaching influential media to reshape the cause. By including a glamorous picture of a mom nursing with the help of a lactation counselor “coach”, SHAPE, a non-parenting, non-pregnancy, popular mainstream magazine, is helping us to change the public perception of breastfeeding and position it in the paradigm of the fitness industry. Breastfeeding, like exercise, is good for you and your baby, and while you may have some hurdles at first, is worth sticking with for the amazing benefits and feel-good effect.

1010 WINS, New York City’s #1 AM radio station (All News, Weather & Traffic, All the Time) runs clips of Best for Babes Co-Founder Bettina Forbes discussing the “Booby Traps” with Reporter Alice Stockton-Rossini.

Fit Pregnancy features the Best for Babes Ad Campaign in their “News to Use” editorial section; stresses our efforts to expose the ‘Booby Traps’ so more moms can achieve their breastfeeding goals.

July 2009

Momtrendsnyc.com interviewed Best for Babes about the ground-breaking ad campaign, and asked us for info on the best NYC resources, and our breastfeeding “must-haves.”

June 2009

New Jersey Monthly’s NJ My Way talks about the Best for Babes Ad Campaign and the importance of knowing the benefits as well as the booby traps.

March 2009

Best for Babes takes on Hannah Rosin’s “The Case Against Breastfeeding” with a blog for Mom’s Rising. The gist of our view? Hannah Rosing overlooked a big dirty secret: Women who WANT to breastfeed are being “booby-trapped” by cultural and institutional barriers to breastfeeding, and that doesn’t serve feminism at all when 60% of moms can’t fully exercise their right to breastfeed.

October 2008

The Family Groove calls the Best for Babes Foundation “progressive and very hip.”

September 2008

Best for Babes is discussed in Money Well Spent: A Strategic Plan for Smart Philanthropy by Paul Brest (President of The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation) and Hal Harvey (President, Climate Works Foundation).

August 2008

15th Anniversary Issue: Best for Babes is quoted in headlines, along with Harvey Karp, M.D., Halle Berry, and Ricki Lake!”The hardest time to learn about breastfeeding is after the baby is born, when you are exhausted, vulnerable, and at the mercy of booby traps — myths, misinformation and well-meaning but ill-informed professionals and family members.”

May 2008

April 2008

“Treat preparing for breastfeeding like working out, planning a wedding or interviewing for a job. The worst time to learn about breastfeeding is after the baby is born when you’re exhausted, vulnerable and your self-confidence is low.”– Best for Babes

Fit Pregnancy, February 2008

“Women don’t need more pressure and guilt…[t]hey need to see people like themselves who incorporate nursing into their lives.” –Best for Babes

Stork Magazine, August 2007

Check out our launch with the cover of Stork Magazine‘s August 2007 issue!BfB is bringing new moms positive and inspiring images and messages, great celebrity and every day role-models, evidence-based, smart info and stylish products. “I was one of those women myself who wasn’t initially keen on breastfeeding, even though I knew it had many benefits, so I can identify with women who are ‘on the fence'” says Forbes. “Many of my friends and peers didn’t identify with the traditional breastfeeding image, either, and like me were not adequately motivated or prepared, so we ended up with problems that could easily have been avoided.” Stork Magazine, August 2007